How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage

Re:How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike F... by ghostbrainalpha on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:28PM (#22066709)

In addition, the Grand Parent comment didn't mention that in the article the BBC is saying that the person who filmed the video is SAFE, and that is taking the blame.

So Iran has arrested an innocent person in order to shift public anger onto them, for something that shouldn't have been a crime in the first place.

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Re:How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike F... by boomboomsubban on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:07PM (#22067760)

>So Iran has arrested an innocent person in order to shift public anger onto them,

Or they mistakenly arrested the wrong person to ensure the cameraman was not filming the missile at the command of an enemy nation. Arresting an innocent person is a necessary evil worldwide, convicting them would be forcing them to take the blame.

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Re:How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike F... by ghostbrainalpha on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:37AM (#22099974)

You can't "ensure they aren't working for an enemy nation" if it's the wrong person. Your presuming it was an accident they got the wrong person. I'm presuming it wasn't.

Both are presumptions, but based on the the rest of their actions it seems like my presumption is more likely.

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Re:How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike F... by boomboomsubban on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:42AM (#22135700)

So you think they took the public relations hit of arresting the journalist but intentionally arrested some random person? Why?

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